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This is for questions on Amazon's storage service for its ec2 service.

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Strange Linux disk statistics on EBS i/o credit exhaustion

We have T2 instances (Linux 4.9.20-11.31.amzn1.x86_64) on AWS EC2 which exhaust their i/o credits due to disk reads. It may well be that we have excessive reads on these nodes, so nothing strange about this in itself, but the result on the processes…
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"Device /dev/xvdb not found" AWS EC2 symlinked volume

I have an AWS instance with an encrypted EBS volume, which is at /dev/sdb. I am trying to mount it via ansible using the command: - name: format new volume filesystem: fstype=xfs dev=/dev/xvdb - name: edit fstab and mount the vol action:…
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AWS: Attach EBS to Lightsail instance?

Is it possible to attach an EBS drive to a lightsail instance (aside from the one that (appears to be) auto-attached when creating the instance)?
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Mount command hanging after attaching EBS volumes on AWS

I'm creating four volumes from four EBS snapshots on AWS. The four volumes make up one BTRFS multi-device drive. The drives have no partition tables, i.e I've ran mkfs.btrfs /dev/xvdf /dev/xvdg etc. When I create the volumes I attach them with the…
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Deleted the data while Amazon EBS Volume While Snapshot in Pending

After I triggered the snapshot of a volume, I go ahead to work on the mounting due to the long hours of waiting and accidentally deleted the data in the volume. Will the snapshot still snap-shoting the previous data of the volume? Thanks.
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Improving I/O rates for EBS snapshot backed volumes

I'm working with a system that takes a set of 42 rotating daily EBS snapshots of each of its numerous (40) volumes for disaster recovery purposes. EBS volumes are aggregated into a RAID volume. A set of consistent snapshots are taken by freezing the…
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Wordpress - images not syncing in AWS EBS

I think I know the answer, but I'd like to confirm. I've a 2-servers load balancer that's hosting a Wordpress website. When the content managers create new content, specially IMAGES: intermittently the image fail to load. After few refresh , it's…
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EC2 Disk space not utilized fully

I have an EC2 instance. While launching i tried with disk storage space, like 16 GB. In AWS console i see a new EBS volume been created of 16 GB and gets attached. When i log into machine i can see the disk size being 16 GB but my partition is only…
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Windows backup VS Volume snapshot

I have an EBS volume mounted as secondary volume on an EC2 . I want to back up data on the C drive (WEB application user document attachements ) of the EC2 instance : 1) Run a regular windows server backups of the C drive content (some data) and…
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Automated Daily/Hourly EBS Snapshots From EC2 Management Console?

Does anyone know if it's possible to automate the creation of EBS snapshots from the online EC2 Management console (Say every day or every hour) and then tell it how long to keep them (Pruning them)? I don't use the command line tools, so would hope…
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Setup of high-end web server and DB server cluster on Amazon EC2: Is this how it's done?

EC2, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud virtual machine service, has many configuration options. So, I want to confirm that this configuration is correct for a scalable database and web server backend. We have a large 500 GB database. (OrientDB.) We…
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How to select snapshot for root EBS volume

I have a custom AMI, with a corresponding EBS snapshot, made some time earlier. Recently, I have decided to create a newer EBS snapshot to reflect some software updates. Then I wanted to submit a spot instance request, so that the new instance would…
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Can I use ZFS to replicate (fast) EC2 instance store to (slow) EBS store?

I love the idea of using SSD EBS instance stores as L2ARC and ZIL for a zpool backed by EBS. Going further (and into more dangerous territory), could I instead create a zpool mirror with the 2 instance stores: zpool create vol1 mirror xvdb xvdc and…
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Backup EC2 instances

I found a lot of questions to this topic already, but I'm still not 100% sure what's the best approach to do so. The option I'd prefer is using EBS snapshots. The pros would be that I can spin up a new AMI, detach the volume and attach the new one…
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How to restore a dd image to an EBS volume

I have a local dd image myimage.bin, which I want to use to create an AWS EBS volume. The only way I can figure out how to do this is to, 1) Launch an AWS instance 2) Create and attach an EBS volume 3) scp the local myimage.bin to the AWS…
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